Early Verb Constructions in French: Adjacency on the Left Edge

Autor/inn/en	Veneziano, Edy; Clark, Eve V.
Titel	Early Verb Constructions in French: Adjacency on the Left Edge
Quelle	In: Journal of Child Language, 43 (2016) 6, S.1193-1230 (38 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0305-0009
DOI	10.1017/S0305000915000471
Schlagwörter	Child Language; Language Acquisition; French; Verbs; Morphemes; Prediction; Hypothesis Testing; Linguistic Theory; Preschool Children + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? 'Children''s language'; Kindersprache; Sprachaneignung; Spracherwerb; Französisch; Morphem; Vorhersage; Hypothesenprüfung; Hypothesentest; Linguistische Theorie; Pre-school age; Preschool age; Child; Children; Pre-school education; Preschool education; Vorschulalter; Kind; Kinder; Vorschulkind; Vorschulkinder; Vorschulerziehung; Vorschule
Abstract	Children acquiring French elaborate their early verb constructions by adding adjacent morphemes incrementally at the left edge of core verbs. This hypothesis was tested with 2657 verb uses from four children between 1;3 and 2;7. Consistent with the Adjacency Hypothesis, children added clitic subjects frst only to present tense forms (as in "il saute" "he jumps"); modals to infnitives (as in "faut sauter" "has to jump"); and auxiliaries to past participles (as in "a sauté" "has jumped"). Only after this did the children add subjects to the left of a modal or auxiliary, as in "elle veut sauter" "she wants to jump", or "elle a sauté" "she has jumped". The order in which these elements were added, and the development in the frequencies of the constructions, all support the predictions of the Adjacency Hypothesis for left edge development in early verb constructions. (As Provided).
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Update	2020/1/01